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An Indian immigrant in Poland captures the essence of Warsaw through his lens, exploring a street that reflects the nation's diverse society, complexities, and tensions. His journey bridges cultural gaps and reveals a country in flux.

The families from various backgrounds move to a newly built block of flats in the suburbs of Warsaw. They have to face the totalitarian methods applied by the block caretaker Stanislaw Aniol.

A multi-generational epic saga about problems and joys of the residents of one tenement house in Warsaw against the background of events from the post-war history of Poland under communist rule, stretching from 1945 to 1980.

Ricky is an escapee from a reform school. Julian escaped the anger of a voluntarily fire brigade in a small town from which he embezzled. They team together in Warsaw. In search for food they break into a villa and Ricky discovers a bundle of cash in the freezer. They decide to go on a rampage through the city.

In the spring of 1945, the commanding officer of the National Armed Forces in Mazowsze and older brother of 20-year-old Mieczyslaw Dziemieszkiewicz, is assassinated by Soviet soldiers. Mieczyslaw then joins the National Military Union. He becomes the commander of a partisan unit fighting for the next six years to free Poland from Soviet tyranny by terrorizing the UB and its collaborators. Communist authorities will do whatever it takes to track down the "enemy of the people's power."

In the 50s a tailor drinking with his friends has an attack that requires an emergency treatment in the hospital. He has damaged kidneys. Given a second lease on life the tailor thinks that while in a coma he has communicated with the distant stars. He gives up tailoring and turns to the stars. He engages his friends in a village to build an observatory. He becomes recognized and for a time being even the authorities back him up. But then comes bitter awakening: his wife can't take his obsessions anymore and leaves him. The town council calls upon him to close his work as the first Sputnik goes into space. Then he is invited to an astronomical convention, He becomes the sensation of the conference, not however, as a amateur astronomer, but by guessing the clothing measurements of the delegates. Back home he realizes that his dream may be over, but he cannot help gazing at the sky.

A recovering alcoholic on a pilgrimage meets two young refugees who are trying to find their father. Their struggles during the trip from Poland to France will forever change their lives.

When he tumbles out of a window, Hamster sets an avalanche of minor catastrophes in motion. It turns out that the small, local community is incapable of finding either a common language or a single set of values. The innocent are the ones who pay the price for this failure.

A rebellious architecture student is sent to jail where he reminisces the last years of his uncompromising life.

A young bachelor finishes his army service and goes back to his native village. He wants to settle down and work on the farm with his wife. But first of all, he needs to find one.